{"data":{"id":"7fd79c85-2c79-4ef9-a796-562f15896501","title":"On the hunt for ARTEX: understanding agentic attacks in AWS environments","summary":"In October 2026, Datadog observed in-the-wild activity from ARTEX, an AI-native penetration framework in which LLM agents plan and run attacks, against several AWS environments. Using compromised long-term IAM access keys, ARTEX searched CloudWatch logs with FilterLogEvents for financial data, file paths and secrets, and it also abused unauthenticated public Amazon Cognito user pools through anonymous sign-ups and token collection.","solution":"N/A -- no mitigation discussed in source.","labels":["security","industry"],"sourceUrl":"\n    https://securitylabs.datadoghq.com/articles/artex-agentic-attacks-aws-environments/","publishedAt":"2026-11-09T00:00:00.000Z","cveId":null,"cweIds":null,"cvssScore":null,"cvssSeverity":null,"severity":"medium","attackType":["other"],"issueType":"news","affectedPackages":null,"affectedPackageNames":null,"affectedPackageRefs":null,"affectedVendors":["Microsoft","Amazon"],"affectedVendorsRaw":["ARTEX","AWS","Amazon Cognito","CloudWatch","Okta","Entra ID"],"classifierModel":"claude-haiku-5-5","classifierPromptVersion":"v4","summaryPromptVersion":"v2","headline":null,"headlinePromptVersion":null,"cvssVector":null,"attackVector":null,"attackComplexity":null,"privilegesRequired":null,"userInteraction":null,"exploitMaturity":null,"epssScore":null,"epssCheckedAt":null,"kevDateAdded":null,"advisoryAliases":null,"affectedPackagesSource":null,"affectedPackagesCheckedAt":null,"patchAvailable":null,"disclosureDate":"2026-11-09T00:00:00.000Z","fixReleasedAt":null,"daysToFix":null,"fixCheckedAt":null,"capecIds":null,"crossRefCount":0,"attackSophistication":"advanced","impactType":["confidentiality","integrity"],"aiComponentTargeted":"agent","llmSpecific":true,"classifierConfidence":0.85,"researchCategory":null,"atlasIds":null}}